Chapter 2

When the others had snapped out of it, it was too late. YoungDarkZoomamon had already tricked Matt into making the promises and went off somewhere with him. The digimon were the first ones the attack wore off on. They managed to get the others to stop arguing and Gabumon told them what happened. After Gabumon explained what had happened, the others were shocked that they had been arguing with each other.

"…and that's what happened. I can't seem to find Matt anywhere either." Gabumon said as he finished explaining.

"But I did find this when I was looking for Matt." and he held up the Crest of Friendship, which he had found under a bush.

"Something must have happened to Matt. He always wears the Crest of Friendship." Tai said.

"But, where is he then?" everyone asked.

"I don't know, but we need to find him."

"Let's start our search at the hidden lake, where you last saw him, Gabumon." Tentomon said. Then, they started their search for Matt.

When they came to the lake, they were surprised to find claw marks bigger than Gomamon's claws on a tree and on the ground.

"Look at the size of these claw marks! They're gigantic!" Izzy said as he sat down and got a closer look. "What kind of digimon could make these?"

"Maybe the digimon who made these claw marks also kidnapped Matt. Let's start following these claw marks!" Tai said. When they had started following the tracks, it was very easy to find out where they were going until it started to rain, which was washing away the tracks.

"Uh-oh! The rain will wash away the tracks in no time at all if we don't hurry!" Kari yelled when it had started to rain.

"Then let's try to stay with the trail for as long as we can!" Sora yelled as she started to go faster. They ran as far as they could see the trail. When the trail had disappeared, they were very far from where they had started. They had to rest when the trail had disappeared.

"How are we going to find them now?" Mimi said with a sigh after they had found a cave to rest in.

"Well, they were heading north. If I'm correct, they should've stopped and rested during the storm. Since we ran through the storm, we must have caught up to them." Izzy said as he opened his computer.

"The area around here is covered in dense woodland. It must have taken them a while to get through here. We might have a chance to reach them before they move again if we leave now." Izzy continued after he had pulled up a map on his computer.

"Well, what are doing standing around then? Let's go find Matt!" T.K. yelled as he rushed outside the cave.

"Wait T.K.! We don't know how strong the digimon that kidnapped him is!" Joe yelled as he ran after T.K. Everyone else ran out of the cave and followed them. When everyone finally caught up to T.K. and Joe, they found Matt and YoungDarkZoomamon.

"Well, well, well, looks like your friends have finally caught up. Maybe I could play with your friends for a while, or until I'm done with them." YoungDarkZoomamon said as he got up and stretched.

"Who are you? Let Matt go, whoever you are!" Tai yelled at YoungDarkZoomamon as he got up.

"All YOU need to know," YoungDarkZoomamon said as he pointed his paw at Tai, "Is that I will defeat you and that you can't stop me."

"We'll see about that! Agumon! Digivolve!" Tai yelled as he got out his digivice. Then, Agumon suddenly became his mega level form, WarGreymon.

"Let him go!" WarGreymon yelled as he charged at YoungDarkZoomamon.

"If you want your friend back, defeat me!" YoungDarkZoomamon yelled as he ran off in the opposite direction. While WarGreymon chased after him, Tai and the others helped Matt up, even though he said to not help him up. "Matt, you're hurt. You need help. We don't care if you say you don't need any help. We'll still help you." Sora said as she helped Matt up.

"No. Don't help me. He used the same attack on me that he used on you and made me make a deadly promise to him. He said if I broke it, he would kill all of you guys." Matt said weakly. He had tried to escape when the attack's effects had worn off. But YoungDarkZoomamon had hurt him really badly when he had tried to escape, so now he could barely move.